October 2020 - UK auction highlights
9 November, 2020
Ferraris led the way at Bonhams’ Goodwood SpeedWeek sale on 17 October, where its European-spec left-hand drive 1967 330 GTS was hammered away for £1,269,400 (estimate £1,200,000 – 1,500,000). A 1969 365 GTC restored by Colin Clarke in the early ‘90s, and one of just 22 built in right-hand drive, made £531,300 (estimate £500,000 – 600,000), and a 1974 Dino 246 GTS that was the subject of a recently completed three-year restoration sold for £300,000 (estimate £300,000 – 350,000).
A 1957 BMW 503 Cabriolet that was offered from the estate of the late John Surtees found a new home at £230,000 (estimate £220,000 – 260,000). One of only three right-hand drive cabriolets produced, chassis 69141 was first registered to AFN, the UK agents for BMW and Porsche, where it remained until Porsche took over the business in 1987. Surtees became its second owner not long after, restoring the cabriolet to its former glory and using it regularly up until his passing in 2017.
Elsewhere, highlights included a ‘no reserve’ 1959 Aston Martin DB4 at £276,000 (estimate £250,000 – 350,000); a left-hand drive 1960 Mercedes-Benz 190 SL blitzed its £100,000 – 120,000 pre-sale estimate, taking £155,250; and a 1992 Porsche 964 Carrera 2 with just 566 miles covered since its conversion by Ninemeister to a pre-1972 style brought £132,250 (estimate £80,000 – 140,000).
[ Bonhams Goodwood SpeedWeek Sale – view auction results here ]
H&H’s matching-numbers 1934 Lagonda M45 Rapide Tourer didn’t disappoint on the day, the catalogue star generating a well-deserved £191,250 at their Imperial War Museum sale on 14 October (estimate £170,000 – 190,000).
A 650-mile 2016 Jaguar F-Type Project 7 – one of 80 right-hand drive examples out of a limited production run of 250 – topped the modern collector cars on offer, selling for £99,000 (estimate £80,000 – 100,000); while a five-owner 1990 Audi Quattro 20V with 89,000 miles drew £56,250 (estimate £45,000 – 55,000).
Other strong performers included a 1933 Rolls-Royce 20/25 Coupe with handsome coachwork by Freestone & Webb which achieved over double its lower estimate, going for £78,750; the ex-Diana White 1948 Bristol 400 took £72,000 (estimate of £60,000 – 70,000); and a 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible, restored in 2016, sold for £65,025 (estimate £58,000 – 62,000).
[ H&H Imperial War Museum Sale – view auction results here ]
H&H presented a varied roster a week later at its online auction when the star attraction, an ex-Harrods 1969 Rolls-Royce Phantom VI, changed hands for £84,375 against a £70,000 – 80,000 guide. The sale also featured a 1957 Citroën 2CV AZ, comprehensively restored after it was imported into the UK in 2013 and subsequently displayed at the 2016 NEC Classic Car Show, which raised £12,333 (estimate £12,000 – 14,000).
[ H&H October Online Sale – view auction results here ]
RM Sotheby’s London sale was shifted to an online-only auction in response to increasing coronavirus concerns in the UK. A right-hand drive 1965 Aston Martin DB5 posted the top result, selling for a mid-estimate £407,000. Presented in Royal Blue and Kuwati-registered, chassis 2018/R – originally finished in Silver Birch – was ripe for restoration having spent the majority of its life in storage after the consignor’s purchase in 2008.
Success among the ‘young timers’ included a one-owner 3,900-km 2019 Ferrari 812 Superfast, built by Ferrari’s Tailor Made division at an additional cost of some €68,000, which fetched £231,000 (estimate £245,000 – 300,000), and a UK-supplied 2005 Mercedes-Benz CLK DTM AMG, with one owner and less than 6,300 miles, at £209,000 (estimate £190,000 – 210,000).
The ex-Walter Röhrl 1980 Fiat Abarth 131 Rally attracted strong bids, bringing £297,000 (estimate £250,000 – 300,000), as did a 16,000-km 1993 Lancia Delta HF Integrale Evoluzione II that exceeded its £70,000 – 80,000 estimate, selling for £84,700.
[ RM Sotheby’s London Sale – view auction results here ]
Classic car auction results and prices for: Ferrari | BMW | Aston Martin | Mercedes-Benz | Porsche | Lagonda | Jaguar | Audi | Rolls-Royce | Bristol | Chevrolet | Citroën | Fiat | Lancia
From leading auction houses: Bonhams | H&H Classics | RM Sotheby’s
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